Questions tagged [answer-bot]
An experimental bot on the network generating draft answers to posts using LLM/AI technology.
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Concluding the Answer Assistant experiment
On Tuesday, April 29, 2025, we ended the Answer Assistant experiment on the Stack Exchange sites where it was running - Raspberry Pi, Arts & Crafts, and User Experience.
We greatly appreciate the ...
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Why are Answer Bot's unapproved answers shown above human answers?
I clicked on a question that said it had 1 answer and the answer I saw was an unapproved one by Answer Bot (requires 151 site rep to see). Having seen one answer on a page that said there was only one ...
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What is the published content of the Answer Bot licensed under? How can I share it?
The human created content on the StackExchanges has been licensed to the public under various versions of the CC-BY-SA license over the years, current created content under version 4.0. The license ...
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Stack Exchange's Answer Bot violates all main points from the company's GenAI policy
Currently, Stack Exchange has created an Answer Bot, which provides AI generated answers to certain questions which humans then review. However, they did not disclose which AI/LLM they are using for ...
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Another typo in the Answer Bot help center page [closed]
The help center page for Answer Bot says this:
[...] but do not feel you cannot approve a review because you are not sure about something.1 Remember, this is just about making the answer public [...]
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Typo in Answer Bot help center page
Currently, the page states this:
[...] There us no difference in reputation requirements for voting on the answers.
Emphasis added
It should presumably say "There is no difference [...]".
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Answer Bot's "Network profile" is a dead link
On Answer Bot's user profile (e.g., on Web Apps), the "Network profile" link leads to https://stackexchange.com/users/-2/answer-bot, which doesn't exist ("Page Not Found").
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Where can I see the list of answers by Answer Bot?
Where can I see the list of answers by Answer Bot? I don't see it on the bot's user pages (e.g. https://crafts.stackexchange.com/users/-2/answer-bot), even though I have enough rep to see the answers (...
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Answer Bot claims to be searching copyrighted works that aren't legally available in digital formats
The following from this Answer Bot draft post on Art & Crafts (screenshot) caught my attention:
I searched through several art dictionaries and academic resources, including:
The Oxford ...
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Can we get some explanations for the AI answers experiment?
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The community has a whole ton of questions and concerns that aren’t being answered. Some response from the people actually running this experiment on us would be great. Further questions/...
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AI-generated Answers experiment & The Data Dump
Following the AI-generated Answers experiment on Stack Exchange sites that volunteered to participate announcements I wanted to ask if the company has already planned a way to filter out the (few?) AI-...
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Understanding the Company view. How much does the company think the current LLM technology can improve
I am posting this to give the company a chance to present their view and explain why they are so willing to trust LLM as a new potential source of content to the site. Other users are free to post ...
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AI-generated Answers experiment on Stack Exchange sites that volunteered to participate
Update – April 29, 2025:
The Answer Assistant experiment has concluded.
Answer Assistant is an experiment in which AI-generated answers are verified, edited, and curated by the community before ...
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"1 new answer has been posted" message, even though no answers had been posted
Bug: I got a "1 new answer has been posted" message, even though no answers had been posted (I've >10k rep there so I can see deleted answers, unless an SE employee purged it right at the ...
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Hidden answers by Answer Bot suddenly become visible after the question is migrated
I saw this answer which was written by Answer Bot which (as far as I know) shouldn't (yet) post anything to a public site and especially not to any public site that doesn't even have Answer Bot.
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What is "Answer Bot" and what is it doing?
I found a user on Webapps SE named Answer Bot with an "AI" badge (site profile ID of -2). Here's the profile[1]:
Hi, I'm not really a person.
I'm an AI that's powered by LLM partners of ...
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